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Facile synthesis of Ag3VO4/β-AgVO3 nanowires with efficient visible-light photocatalytic activity

Lei Gao,ab   Zhonghua Li ORCID logo *b  and  Jiawen Liu*c  

* Corresponding authors

a School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, P. R. China

b Key Laboratory of Microsystems and Microstructures Manufacturing, Ministry of Education, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, P. R. China
E-mail: lizh@hit.edu.cn

c Key Laboratory for Photochemical Biomaterials and Energy Storage Materials, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Normal University, Harbin 150025, Heilongjiang Province, P. R. China
E-mail: jiawen86@163.com

Abstract

Ag3VO4/β-AgVO3 nanocomposites were successfully fabricated by chemical precipitation and hydrothermal method. The composites displayed excellent photocatalytic activity in comparision with those of pure β-AgVO3 and Ag3VO4, which may be primarily ascribed to the matched energy structures. The sample with a molar ratio of 30% Ag3VO4 to β-AgVO3 showed the highest photocatalytic activity for RhB degradation, which was almost 9 and 2.4 times higher than those of pure β-AgVO3 and Ag3VO4, respectively. In addition, the trapping experiments also confirmed that holes and hydroxyl radicals are the active species for RhB degradation, and the possible mechanism for enhanced photocatalytic activity was proposed.

Graphical abstract: Facile synthesis of Ag3VO4/β-AgVO3 nanowires with efficient visible-light photocatalytic activity

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C7RA03955G
Article type
Paper
Submitted
07 Apr 2017
Accepted
15 May 2017
First published
23 May 2017
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

RSC Adv., 2017,7, 27515-27521

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Facile synthesis of Ag3VO4/β-AgVO3 nanowires with efficient visible-light photocatalytic activity

L. Gao, Z. Li and J. Liu, RSC Adv., 2017, 7, 27515 DOI: 10.1039/C7RA03955G

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